Mint Julep is Hollie Kenniff & Keith Kenniff (aka Helios, Goldmund). On their second album Broken Devotion, Portland-based duo Mint Julep instill their lush and gauzy, synth-centric brand of pop music with a raw and powerful emotionalism....

Vacaliebres, Genoa, Italy. It is sometimes argued that civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy or that it displays the “totalitarianism of the left,” to use the fashionable phrase. The argument is that the democratically controlled institutions of American society have deter...

Christian Schmidt, Stuttgart, Germany. The US-UK invasion of Iraq alone displaced some 4 million people, of whom almost half fled to neighboring countries. And Iraqis continue to flee from a country that is one of the most miserable on earth after a decade of murderous sanctions follo...

Kristoffer Lislegaard + Burial + Johnny Rock + Braden Deal. My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them. L.T....

Chris Round, Sydney, Australia. I think we have to be cautious in interpreting ISIS claims of responsibility for terrorist attacks. Take the worst of the recent ones, in Nice. It was discussed by Akbar Ahmed, one of the most careful and discerning analysts of radical Islam. He conclud...